Editing Rimmon

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'''Rimmon''' or '''Rimon''' ({{langx|he|רִמּוֹן|Rīmmōn}}) is a [[Hebrew language| Hebrew]] word meaning '[[pomegranate]]'. It appears as a name in the [[Hebrew Bible]] where,  when translated to [[Greek language |Greek]], it takes the form '''Remmon''' Ρεμμων, ''Remmōn'').

==Hebrew Bible==
{{see also |Pomegranate#Ancient Israel and Judaism}}

===Place-names===
Rimmon may refer to:
* Rimmon, one of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to [[tribe of Simeon|Simeon]] (Joshua 15:21, 32; 19:7; [[Books of Chronicles|1 Chronicles]] 4:32). In Joshua 15:32, Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in Joshua 19:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:32 the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon = "the spring of the pomegranate" (compare [[Book of Nehemiah|Nehemiah]] 11:29). It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of [[Hebron]]. [[Book of Zechariah|Zechariah]] 14:10 describes it as "south of [[Jerusalem]]," to distinguish it from other Rimmons; and uses it in conjunction with [[Geba (city)|Geba]] to describe the latitudinal span of the [[kingdom of Judah]].

* The ''Rock of Rimmon'', where the Benjamites fled ([[Book of Judges|Judges]] 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the battle at Gibeah. It is the present village of [[Rammun]], "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the [[River Jordan|Jordan]] valley", supposed to be the site of [[Ai (Bible)|Ai]].<ref name="Easton">{{cite book|author=M. G. Easton|title=Illustrated Bible Dictionary|date=October 2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1DSxtGgEAwC&pg=PA585|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59605-947-4|page=585}}</ref> Israeli settlement [[Rimonim]] nearby is named after the biblical place.

*[[List of minor biblical places#Hadad-Rimmon|Hadad-Rimmon]] near [[Tel Megiddo |Megiddo]]
[[File:Ancient Galilee.jpg|upright|thumb|A map showing Hadad-Rimmon in ancient Galilee (bottom left) and identifying it with [[Maximianopolis (Palestine)|Maximianopolis]]]]

===Biblical figure===
Rimon is mentioned as a man of [[Beeroth (biblical city)|Beeroth]] of the [[tribe of Benjamin]], whose two sons, [[Baanah]] and [[Rechab]], were captains of the army of [[Ish-bosheth]], son of [[King Saul]].<ref>{{bibleverse|2|Samuel|4:2|NKJV}}</ref>

===Syrian deity===
{{main|Hadad}}

Rimmon ("[[pomegranate]]" in Hebrew)<ref name= Zon>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last= Tenney |editor-first= Merrill C. |editor-link= Merrill C. Tenney |entry= Rimmon |encyclopedia= The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible |year= 1975 |via= BibleGateway |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Rimmon |access-date= 29 July 2024 |title= Rimmon - Encyclopedia of the Bible - Bible Gateway }} Citing [[Aapeli Saarisalo |A. Saarisalo]], ''Topographical Researches in Galilee'', JPOS, IX (1929), pp. 27-40; [[F.-M. Abel]], ''Géographie de la Palestine'', II (1938), pp. 437 and passim; [[W. F. Albright]], ''The List of Levitic Cities'', [[Louis Ginzberg]] Jubilee Volume (1945), English section, pp. 49-73; [[Yohanan Aharoni |Y. Aharoni]], ''The Land of the Bible'' (1967).</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Klein |first= Reuven Chaim |year= 2018 |title= God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry |publisher= Mosaica Press |pages= 351–354 |isbn= 978-1946351463 |ol= 27322748M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA351 |access-date= 29 July 2024}}</ref> was a [[Aram (region)|Syrian]] deity mentioned in the [[Second Book of Kings]] ({{bibleverse|2|Kings|5:18|NKJV}}), to whom a temple was dedicated. In Syria, this storm god was also known as [[Hadad]] (interpreted to mean "the breast" in [[Biblical Hebrew]])<ref>{{cite web |last= Klein |first= Reuven Chaim |date= August 2017 |title= Nursing from the Good |publisher= Ohr Somayach |series= ''What's in a Word?'' |url=https://ohr.edu/11764}}</ref><ref>Klein (2018), pp.[323-[https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA324 324].</ref> or [[Baal]] ("the Lord"), and in Assyria as [[Hadad |Ramanu]] ("the [[thunder]]er", when borrowed from [[Akkadian language| Akkadian]] - cf. Akkadian ''ramanu'', "to roar").<ref name= Zon/>

According to the biblical narrative, the Aramean commander [[Naaman]], having been healed of his [[leprosy]] by the Israelite prophet [[Elisha]], requested pardon from God for continuing to minister to the [[List of Syrian monarchs|King of Syria]] who would continue to worship in the Temple of Rimmon. Elisha granted him this pardon.<ref>{{bibleverse|2|Kings|5:19|NKJV}}</ref>

== Extra-biblical usage ==
* An adornment of the [[Torah scroll]] (usually plural: ''[[Torah rimonim]]''), from the Hebrew word for pomegranate.
[[Image:V11p129001 Torah.jpg|upright|right|thumb|Torah with rimmonim{{dubious|Hebrew word, transliterated, normally has one m, not 2. |date= March 2024}}]]

*"Rimmon", a poem by [[Rudyard Kipling]] written in 1903 after the [[Boer War]].<ref>[http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Kipling_28_Rimmon.pdf Rimmon], from ''Rudyard Kipling’s Verse'', definitive edition, London, 1940, accessed 25 December 2017</ref>
*According to ''[[The Urantia Book]]'', allegedly revealed by celestial beings and published in 1955 in the US, Rimmon was a small city in the region of [[Galilee]] which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman"<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-146-first-preaching-tour-galilee/|title=The Urantia Book: First Preaching Tour of Galilee, paper 146:1|page=1637}}</ref> (see [[Hadad]]/Ramman).

==See also==
*[[Rimon (disambiguation)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{wiktionary-inline|רימון}}

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